1,000 Yard Rifle for $945: Confirmed

OK, so my original plan didn’t work out. The Weatherby was an awesome hunting rifle, but the combination of the rifle and the optic didn’t quite work for long range work. What did work amazingly well, however, was the Remington 700 AAC-SD with a Primary Arms scope. Using some 200 grain handloads I was able to ring the gong at the end of the range — 1,000 full yards away. You have no idea how happy it makes me to finally report on a gun that I’ve confirmed to be a 1,000 yard gun. And to confirm that on such a beautiful day was a pure joy.

I’m still looking for the load (and some non-windy weather) to stretch my own 700 PSS out to the 1,000 yard mark. Even with an incomparable Accuracy International AX-308 I struggled past 800 yards. Some others did fine at that range, so it was probably operator headspace error.

Now NIck, can you start ringing (regularly) the 10 and X rings on the NRA long range target? To be clear, I’m not trying to demean, I’m trying to challenge and encourage. GO FOR IT! I’ve pulled targets for some of the nations best Palma shooters and seeing them knocking the spotter out of the X-ring over and over is a thing of joy.

Nick, in your initial review of the Remington 700 AAC-SD you mentioned several times how well it worked with a silencer. Was this test performed with or without the silencer? If without, how do you think a silencer would affect the accuracy?